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Community members validating their local adaptation plan with district government officials and ACCRA team in Guija district,
Mozambique
Who we are
ACCRA seeks to improve the governance and planning processes of adaptation so that they enhance
adaptive capacity; are gender responsive, participatory and people-centred, transparent and
accountable. ACCRA works in partnership with governments, civil society, and INGOs to bring about
long term change. Unlike many climate change adaptation programmes, ACCRA does not work only
at the community level on short term coping strategies. Instead, it changes the systems of
governance by using contextual evidence to build the capacities of decision-makers to think and
plan differently for the long term and by enabling the voices and needs of women, men, boys and
girls living in poverty to be integrated into climate - resilient development planning and decisions.
The resulting longer-term planning and accountability mechanisms are transformative i.e. able to
address the causes of vulnerability and risk; not only their impacts.
ACCRAs approach
In Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique, ACCRA has developed trusted relationships with decision
makers and champions of people-centered climate resilience in national governments and civil
society organizations. Its approach of working within, rather than outside of national systems has
enabled ACCRA to bring about sustainable change at a bigger, system-wide scale that is owned by
civil society and governments.
High quality research and evidence, through innovative tools including the Local Adaptive
Capacity Framework, political economy analysis tools, and games on Flexible and Forward-
looking Decision Making (FFDM). The generated contextual evidence form the basis of ACCRAs
capacity enhancement and policy influencing strategies.
Pilot projects are used to demonstrate how change can happen and advocate for scaling up of
good practice. ACCRAs most successful policy influencing pilots include 1) Improving access and
use of weather forecasts by rural farmers and general public 2) Developing climate change
indicators and local adaptation plans through participatory processes 3) Mainstreaming
gender, CCA and DRR into local government development plans that have generated
programmes that are people-centred.
ACCRA makes documentation and learning a priority to facilitate effective sharing of experience
and lessons learnt across focus countries, but also in relevant networking platforms at national,
regional and global levels.
ACCRA benefits from the strong institutional capacity and commitment of its alliance members
in county and globally to address climate change. It harnesses the diverse expertise from
country teams, alliance members and international partners through effective coordination and
collaboration on key policy actions.
Thanks to well connected and active staff within the climate change and resilience community of
practice, ACCRA stays informed about the political environment of the countries it operates in.
Non-confrontational methods are ACCRAs preferred option to co-design and co-produce
solutions with advocacy targets. This gives greater sustainability to the learning and capacity
building processes that ACCRA is engaged in at national and local levels.
Stories of change
Improving access and utilisation of weather and climate information services in Uganda
Developing local adaptation plans (LAPs) and National climate change indicators: through
the tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD) approach
In Mozambique the Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development (MITADER) has adopted
the TAMD process as a climate-resilience
planning tool for developing local
adaptation plans. This has helped the
government attract additional funds (e.g.
DANIDA) scaled up to 25 local adaptation
plans (LAPs) from 7 piloted by ACCRA and
USIAID has piloted the model in urban
context with 2 municipalities of
Quelimane and Pemba.
District government staff presenting the Local Adaptation
In Uganda, the Ministry of Water and Plan to the community for their validation in Guija,
Mozambique
Environment and the Climate Change
Department has adopted the TAMD process and developed standard national climate change
indicators which were generated at community level, and validated by national decision makers. The
indicators are yet to be approved by cabinet.
Mainstreaming gender, CCA and DRR into local government development plans
ACCRA integrates gender sensitive approaches in all parts of its work to ensure that climate change
vulnerabilities, capacities and adaptation options take
into account gender-related issues. This is done by:
In Uganda, the NAPA pilot funding from Ministry of Water and Environment has made a difference in
womens and mens lives. Bundibugyo District attracted the NAPA funding due to the improved
District Development plan with technical support from ACCRA.